From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fr8Wr-0006F7-5g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:14:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fr8Wp-0006Eh-0a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:14:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fr8Wo-0006Ed-FQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:14:02 -0400 Received: from [213.205.33.41] (helo=mail-relay-1.tiscali.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fr8gN-0002M5-OE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 03:23:56 -0400 Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (84.222.84.177) by mail-relay-1.tiscali.it (7.3.104) id 448FE5A000043C82 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:12:29 +0200 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:21:46 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player Message-ID: <20060616092146.5c9e8ced@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <1150406229.3016.10.camel@mjolnir> References: <44902362.2000406@gmail.com> <200606141601.59936.paul@codesourcery.com> <4490310D.7060303@gmail.com> <44903504.1070707@gmx.de> <1150357642.5679.7.camel@excellence.kicks-ass.net> <9b0d5f320606150618q25cd2b51v6a2ee6fc951f26b9@mail.gmail.com> <44916C36.50505@gmail.com> <1150406229.3016.10.camel@mjolnir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_SPBk4ehxOHD_geBt_N2wGlY; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org --Sig_SPBk4ehxOHD_geBt_N2wGlY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:09 -0500 John Morris wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 09:18, Joe Lee wrote: >=20 > > I appreciate the effort that some are making to develop a GUI for > > QEMU - There's a few project I see that trying to achieve this. > > But, I wish they all could come together and work together to > > develop a nice GUI. I would like to see a sub-project exist in the > > QEMU site so all can come and contribute to that effort. >=20 > Geez, why not ask for world peace while you are at it. One GUI? So > which toolkit? Pick Gtk and watch the K folk whine. Ok, so KDE it > is. Oops, now the Gnomes are all over ya. And of course since I > suspect a non-trivial percentage of QEMU users are on Windows, > Solaris, etc. they ain't gonna like either of those choices much. WxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) provides a nice way out of this - provides a uniform API for the application developer, and local look-and-feel for each platform. WxWidgets can sit on gtk, motif, x11, win32, mac, cocoa (doesn't appear to be a qt backend yet, but no reason there couldn't be). > Face it, putting a GUI on something like QEMU is going to require at > least a one per desktop/platform effort. And that can best be kept > with the GNOME/KDE/etc software repositories because they require > constant updating on the schedule of the rest of the desktop > environment to stay current. >=20 > Think of it like mkisofs/cdrecord/growisofs/cdrdao vs the abundance of > graphical front ends that all make use of them. Nobody has to totally > reinvent the wheel because those solid CLI only parts can be reused by > each project and each graphical environment gets a totally native (ok, > several) GUI CD/DVD authoring/burning program instead of one crappy > ported program. >=20 --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_SPBk4ehxOHD_geBt_N2wGlY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEklwO9G2S8dekcG0RAjoDAKCGgLJtSsn9vjkBbtJNvByqq3GdmACgnfKi jVFlFRWppEkrKLiPxeIx0gI= =mf+v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_SPBk4ehxOHD_geBt_N2wGlY--